Re: Help me Linux

On 31.10.18 11:49, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 30/10/2018 21:17, P M wrote: > > Although right now I am using Windows but still I feel very enthusiastic > > and energetic with Linux; even I don't know what the reason is. > > You are feeling the potential of open source: a community open to all

Re: No sound in debian stretch after install.

On 10/31/2018 12:59 AM, deloptes wrote: > ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com wrote: > >> BTW, I am using a virtual machine if this matters. > > I just tried a VMware and VBox with Debian Stretch. All works fine. pcspkr > and also aplay works fine as well. > > I tried them from Debian Stretch box - n

Re: No sound in debian stretch after install.

ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com wrote: > BTW, I am using a virtual machine if this matters. I just tried a VMware and VBox with Debian Stretch. All works fine. pcspkr and also aplay works fine as well. I tried them from Debian Stretch box - no idea what is the host of OP. regards

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-30 20:54, Curt wrote: On 2018-10-30, mick crane wrote: I'm using getmail with dovecot deliver since fetchmail stopped working with gmail changing the ssl certificate ( server ) all the bloody time. getmail doesn't have this problem for me although there is still a problem with gma

Re: Help me Linux

On 30/10/2018 21:17, P M wrote: Although right now I am using Windows but still I feel very enthusiastic and energetic with Linux; even I don't know what the reason is. You are feeling the potential of open source: a community open to all and your freedom to change anything. Even Microsoft is

Re: Help me Linux

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Curt wrote: On 2018-10-30, Felmon Davis wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the thing is hard. for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect." I did and I think Dunning and Kruger are p

selinux and debian squeeze 9.5

For some reason, my attempts at enabling SELinux on a squeeze system just aren't taking. As I understand it, the following steps are required: a) installing selinux-policy-default and dependencies b) editing /etc/selinux/config to select default policy and permissive or enforcing. c) adding sec

Re: No sound in debian stretch after install.

On Tue 30 Oct 2018 at 20:43:20 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-10-30, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 30 Oct 2018 at 15:33:30 -0400, ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >> I brought this up a few years ago, but never got things working at least in > >> stretch. When installing using either a dvd or

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-30, mick crane wrote: > > I'm using getmail with dovecot deliver since fetchmail stopped working > with gmail changing the ssl certificate ( server ) all the bloody time. > getmail doesn't have this problem for me although there is still a > problem with gmail insisting on keeping del

Re: No sound in debian stretch after install.

On 2018-10-30, Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Oct 2018 at 15:33:30 -0400, ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I brought this up a few years ago, but never got things working at least in >> stretch. When installing using either a dvd or net installer, speech is > > A few years ago and no sound ye

Re: No sound in debian stretch after install.

On Tue 30 Oct 2018 at 15:33:30 -0400, ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com wrote: > I brought this up a few years ago, but never got things working at least in > stretch. When installing using either a dvd or net installer, speech is A few years ago and no sound yet. It cannot be all that important to

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-30 19:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:03:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: As a long term, 20 years or so, use of an isp who used qmail, by djb, I was rather put off by its instant acceptance of what was patently spam, and finally switching because the place was sol

No sound in debian stretch after install.

Hi all, I brought this up a few years ago, but never got things working at least in stretch. When installing using either a dvd or net installer, speech is fine, but once the system is installed, there is no sound. I tried alsamixer thinking that the valume need to be razed, but nothing infac

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On 2018-10-30 19:03, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2018 13:31:05 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:27:19PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > Probably better: > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ > https://packages.debian.org/sid/getmail > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:03:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > As a long term, 20 years or so, use of an isp who used qmail, by djb, I > was rather put off by its instant acceptance of what was patently spam, > and finally switching because the place was sold and I lost that account qmail is g

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On Tuesday 30 October 2018 13:31:05 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:27:19PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Probably better: > > > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/getmail > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail > > http://pyropus.ca/software/

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

Hi. On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:39:13AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:18:09AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > root@joule:/etc# ip link show | grep rename > > > 4: rename4: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode > > > DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 > > >

Re: versioning file system

On 10/30/18 3:41 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:47:33AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:54:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: It sounds like you never used VAX/VMS. No, it was decidedly before my time¹. I have. It was a PITA in practice, I

Re: Help me Linux

On Tuesday 30 October 2018 13:29:24 Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Oct 2018 at 12:45:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 11:20:28 Ric Moore wrote: > > > On 10/30/18 10:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 10:37:03 Ric Moore wrote: > > > >> On 10/30/18 9:

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:27:19PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > Probably better: > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ > https://packages.debian.org/sid/getmail > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why Interesting. I haven't used fetchmail

Re: Help me Linux

On Tue 30 Oct 2018 at 12:45:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 11:20:28 Ric Moore wrote: > > > On 10/30/18 10:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 10:37:03 Ric Moore wrote: > > >> On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: > > I TRIED TO INSTALL

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:31:47 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 09:19:02PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > > I chose Haiku becuase the MUA is unique - it doesnt have a typcial GUI it > > simply periodically downloads mail from an IMAP/POP server into a folder. > > MailMistress gets

Re: Help me Linux and now waaaay off topic

On Tuesday 30 October 2018 12:55:14 Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:45:21 > > From: Gene Heskett > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Help me Linux > > Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:46:11 + (UTC) > > Resent-From

Re: Mystery interface reported by ip.

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:18:09AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > root@joule:/etc# ip link show | grep rename > > 4: rename4: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode > > DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 > > > > root@joule:/etc# find . -type f -exec grep "rename4" '{}' \; -print > > root@joule:/e

Re: Help me Linux

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:45:21 > From: Gene Heskett > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Help me Linux > Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:46:11 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 11:20:28

Re: Help me Linux

On Tuesday 30 October 2018 11:20:28 Ric Moore wrote: > On 10/30/18 10:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 10:37:03 Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: > I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER > USED DEBIAN. I bel

Re: Help me Linux

On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 04:17:05 AM P M wrote: > I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN. > I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and > experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me! Sort of on a different not

hw acceleration for display stopped working

• Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 Stretch • 20:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 (rev a1) • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Quad-Core Processor Programs using hw acceleration for display stopped working yesterday. ┌ │ $ glxinfo │ name of display: :0 │ libGL error: No matching fbCon

Re: Help me Linux

On 2018-10-30, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the >> thing is hard. > > for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect." > I did and I think Dunning and Kruger are probably the best examples o

Re: Help me Linux

On 10/30/18 10:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2018 10:37:03 Ric Moore wrote: On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN. I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and experienced t

Re: Help me Linux

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the thing is hard. for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect." -- Felmon Davis

Re: Help me Linux

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:53:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 10/30/18 3:17 AM, P M wrote: > > Hey, this is Piyush M. > > > > I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED > > DEBIAN. > > I suggest you try again, and take notes if necessary, and ask this list > when you run

Re: Help me Linux

On Tuesday 30 October 2018 10:37:03 Ric Moore wrote: > On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: > >> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER > >> USED DEBIAN. I believe whoever reading this mail is far more > >> knowledgeable and experienced than me and having good knowle

Re: Help me Linux

On 10/30/18 3:17 AM, P M wrote: > Hey, this is Piyush M. > > I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED > DEBIAN. I suggest you try again, and take notes if necessary, and ask this list when you run into an issue, making sure to be specific about what errors are listed,

Re: An appropriate directory search tool?

On Fri 19 Oct 2018 at 12:03:42 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:48:42AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > find . -type f -exec chmod a-wx {} \; > > For this one, you probably want to replace \; with + to get the efficiency > boost, which would be pretty significant here. Yo

Re: Help me Linux

On 10/30/18 9:16 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN. I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me! First, the entire notion of an email

Re: www-data

On Tuesday 30 October 2018 09:33:09 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 09:24:25 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 06:15:28 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:57:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >Thats how IUI, > > > > > > what does IUI mean

Re: Installing backports packages

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 04:04:29PM +0200, Tommi Höynälänmaa wrote: I have got Debian stable and I'm trying to install new versions of debhelper and lintian from backports. However, apt-get claims that the packages are already the newest versions and installs nothing. Command "apt-get show" show

Re: Installing backports packages

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 04:04:29PM +0200, Tommi Höynälänmaa wrote: > How can I > install the new packages from backports? https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

Re: kmail and reportbug problem - error:141A318A:SSL routines:tls_process_ske_dhe:dh key too small

Hi Songbird, thanks for your help! It helped really! Downgrading to the former version was not possible, due to the dependencies and meanwhile missing packages in the repo. So I decided to do the second way: Installing the libssl packages from unstable, then editing /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf like

Installing backports packages

Hi I have got Debian stable and I'm trying to install new versions of debhelper and lintian from backports. However, apt-get claims that the packages are already the newest versions and installs nothing. Command "apt-get show" shows the new versions (from backports) of the packages, too. How

Re: www-data

Hi Gene, Am 30.10.18 um 14:24 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 06:15:28 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:57:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Thats how IUI, >> >> what does IUI mean? It doesn't look like any of these acronyms apply >> > I Understand It.

Re: Help me Linux

Pardon my jumping in late and piggybacking on Will's message. On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 06:16:17AM -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: > > [...] there is no any alternative available in Linux > > for Corel draw [or] video editing software. > > I wonder whether some of the problems you use those applicati

Re: www-data

On Tuesday 30 October 2018 09:24:25 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 October 2018 06:15:28 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:57:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >Thats how IUI, > > > > what does IUI mean? It doesn't look like any of these acronyms apply > > I Understand

Re: Help me Linux

> I TRIED TO INSTALL DEBIAN MANY TIMES BUT FAILED BADLY. I NEVER USED DEBIAN. > I believe whoever reading this mail is far more knowledgeable and > experienced than me and having good knowledge of Linux. Please help me! Studying will help you i

Re: www-data

On Tuesday 30 October 2018 06:15:28 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:57:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Thats how IUI, > > what does IUI mean? It doesn't look like any of these acronyms apply > I Understand It. > https://www.acronymfinder.com/IUI.html > > > and no one acces

Re: where does fvwm get its xterm icon?

On Mon 24 Sep 2018 at 14:26:48 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote: > David Wright (2018-09-22): > > (Actually .xsession here.) That may well be, and it does work to get > > the xterms placed on the correct positions, but it also has downsides > > which I can avoid while xtoolwait continues to work (even

Re: Help me Linux

On 10/30/2018 06:54 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: [snip] People who are used to doing things in a certain way tend to believe that it is the only way, or the best way. *ROFL* ! I've seen a tag line saying "Universal advice: Don't do that."

Re: Help me Linux

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:47:05PM +0530, P M wrote: > > The reason for this mail is, I am not really very expert or well versed in > any computer language or any field of computer. But I feel strong > connection and relationship with Linux. I also love Python programming > language. Despite of th

Re: kmail and reportbug problem - error:141A318A:SSL routines:tls_process_ske_dhe:dh key too small

hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: > Hello list, > > I am runnng into a big problem since some days. It is not possible to send > any mails using kmail (receiving is working well) and > also reportbug is not working any more. I am using TLS. ... hi, likely it was libssl1.1 upgrade which made TLS

Re: www-data

On 2018-10-30, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:57:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>Thats how IUI, > > what does IUI mean? It doesn't look like any of these acronyms apply > > https://www.acronymfinder.com/IUI.html > As I understand it, we make them up as we go along (hypothe

Re: versioning file system

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:47:33AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:54:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: It sounds like you never used VAX/VMS. No, it was decidedly before my time¹. I have. It was a PITA in practice, which is why other OSs didn't pick up the idea

Re: www-data

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:57:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Thats how IUI, what does IUI mean? It doesn't look like any of these acronyms apply https://www.acronymfinder.com/IUI.html and no one accessing my web page (its on this machine) has jumped the sandbox fence in around 15 years now

Re: Help me Linux

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 1:47 PM, P M wrote: > Hey, this is Piyush M. > I am a computer science graduate from 2015. > It was 2009-10 when first time I heard about Linux. Although in my area there > was only Microsoft but I managed to download Linux. My first

Re: versioning file system

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:54:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: It sounds like you never used VAX/VMS. No, it was decidedly before my time¹. But you seem to be mixed up on the point I'm making. I fully appreciate the potential utility of a versioning filesystem: heck, I'd love it if there wa

kmail and reportbug problem - error:141A318A:SSL routines:tls_process_ske_dhe:dh key too small

Hello list, I am runnng into a big problem since some days. It is not possible to send any mails using kmail (receiving is working well) and also reportbug is not working any more. I am using TLS. When I want to send a mail I get this message: error:141A318A:SSL routines:tls_process_ske_dhe:d

Re: Help me Linux

On 10/30/2018 9:17 AM, P M wrote: > Hey, this is Piyush M. > I am a computer science graduate from 2015. > It was 2009-10 when first time I heard about Linux. Although in my area > there was only Microsoft but I managed to download Linux. My first Linux > was ubuntu. I was very happy to see its fun

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

On 2018-10-29, Michael Stone wrote: > > TL;DR: man pages referencing info pages which are just man pages > shouldn't be a thing anymore. > > Those countless legions of info-page junkies (and the Philadelphia lawyers who've oozed from the woodwork once more to litigate this gnat up the wazoo) mu

Help me Linux

Hey, this is Piyush M. I am a computer science graduate from 2015. It was 2009-10 when first time I heard about Linux. Although in my area there was only Microsoft but I managed to download Linux. My first Linux was ubuntu. I was very happy to see its function and its working. I enjoyed that time w